Chapter 3
Now Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the 3 strangers were now in a forest. Harry did not recognize it as the Forbidden Forest, the Forest of Dean, or any of the other nameless forests he and his friends camped in their search for Horcruxes, which seemed so far away now. He blearily wondered where they were now.
"Millie, the Eterna Forest is also somewhere we don't want to be right now."
Well, it was still an answer.
Suddenly the gravity of everything that had happened came crashing down on Harry, and he snapped at their saviors, "Alright, who are you!? How the bloody hell do we know that you're not just part of some elaborate trap the Death Eaters thought up to catch us?!"
The yellow stranger just had a calm stare on his face. "Because if we were some kind of trap, rescuing you from those black bastards would kind of defeat the whole purpose of having you caught in the first place. This "trap" would be kind of pointless."
Harry opened his mouth, and then closed it. Knowing that it was pointless to argue any further, Harry glanced over at Ron, who was holding a still-unconscious Hermione gingerly as if she were a fragile porcelain doll. Harry wished that he could help his friend, but he didn't really know any healing spells and he had no idea where Hermione's little beaded bag was.
The pink rescuer called Millie looked sadly at Harry for a moment, but then her face lit up. She went over to Hermione and put her hands on Hermione's chest. A light seemed to shine down on her, and Harry and Ron watched in amazement as the many cuts on Hermione's face and body healed. When the light stopped shining, Hermione opened her eyes and sat up.
"Harry? Ron? What happened? Where are we?" Hermione asked, looking around.
Harry and Ron didn't answer, but they did leap onto her and hugged her tightly, saying things like "Hermione, we were so worried about you!" and other things of the sort. Hermione looked surprised, but she didn't protest.
When they finally stopped hugging, Harry turned to their saviors. "Okay, now we know that we can trust you. But do you mind telling us who you exactly are?"
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Millie, Sam, and Holly finished telling their story to the Golden Trio. Ron looked confused, Hermione looked doubtful, and Harry just looked grim.
"Okay, so now we all know each other." Harry said. "But we're supposed to be in the Wizarding World, not in some region on the other side of the world!"
"Don't worry!" Millie piped up. "As long as I'm around, you can go anywhere you want with my teleportation abilities! And so long as Team Galactic doesn't find us, everything will be just fine!"
At that second, several people with light blue hair in spacesuit-like outfits popped out of the bushes, along with some strange creatures the wizards had never seen before.
"Experiments 0013452681, 4521187658, and 7864443319 have been located! Squad 1, capture them, and maybe their friends too!"
"You just had to say something…." Sam said as electricity raced across his body.
Harry, Hermione, and Ron took out their wands and began firing Stunners and Body-Binds at the creatures and spacesuit guys. Millie, Sam, and Holly were firing their own attacks. They were doing well until one of the spacesuit guys threw a red-and-white ball into the air. It opened, and out came a light that turned into a huge red spider with yellow and purple legs and a horn on its head.
"ARIADOS!" the spider-thing cried out. Ron dropped his wand and a terrified look came to his face.
"Ariados use Spider Web!" shouted the spacesuit guy who had sent out the spider thing. Silk came out from the spider thing's mouth, and it covered Millie. Then the spider thing turned to Ron and covered him in web too.
"Medicham, use Psychic!" another spacesuit guy shouted, and a blue aura surrounded the webbed-up Ron and Millie, and they were lifted up in the air towards the spacesuit guys.
"MILLIE, NO!"
"RON, NO!"
Holly and Hermione shouted out at the same time. The spacesuit guys looked coldly back at the group, and one of them said, "Looks like you won't see your friends ever again."
Hermione leapt at the spacesuit guys, screaming "NO!" But there was a flash of light, and the spacesuit guys, Ron, and Millie were gone. Hermione could just land on the spot where the group was a second ago.
"No, no, no, no!" Hermione clawed at the ground and sobbed. It took all of Harry's willpower not to scream out. So much, too much had happened. He had lost Ron again, only this time Ron had been taken forcefully. Not to mention the chances of Ron returning this time were slim, much, much slimmer than before. And what was happening to Ron now? It was all too much for Harry, so he sat down to try and clear his head.
Then he realized that without Millie, he and Hermione also couldn't go back to the Wizarding World and help win the war against Voldemort. Though all that seemed so far away now (both figuratively and literally speaking) the thought of not being able to do anything still made Harry feel worse than ever.
Sam sat down next to Harry. "Hey, we need to get Millie and Ron back. They're both important, and I can guess how bad you're feeling right now. But first, why don't we get something to eat? I think that getting to Eterna City won't take that long…"
Harry didn't really pay any attention to what Sam was saying. All he could think about was Ron.
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Meanwhile, back in Veilstone City, Draco got up and dusted himself. He couldn't believe it. They had just left him there! Potter and his holier-than-thou friends had just left him here, wherever here was! Even though it had been hard for Draco these past few months, he still had the capacity for indignation when it was needed.
Well, I better find some way to get home. Draco thought. He had no idea how far away he was from home, and was not willing to take the risk of getting Splinched beyond repair. He did not have a broom or any Floo Powder. And even if he did have any Powder, where would he find a good enough fire place to use? From the looks of things, this was a Muggle city. He shivered. To be among filth like this…
Then his stomach growled. He had not eaten for a while. Well, he could bear eating with the filth around him, but just this once.
He headed toward a large building with a red roof with a large P on it. When he went in, he found it packed with people. He shivered again, and made a beeline for the counter.
"Hello, welcome to the Veilstone City Pokemon Center! I'm Nurse Joy. You don't look like you come from around here, but then again, a lot of us here aren't even from the Sinnoh region. So, how can I help you?"
"Err… I need a hot meal, and a place to stay for the night."
"Okay! Chansey, can you show this young man to the cafeteria and later his room?"
A pink thing with a nurse hat on it head came out from behind the counter, and Draco nearly jumped back in surprise. It smiled happily and said, "Chansey!" then took his hand in its arm. Draco, still a little dumbfounded by the creature's appearance, did not protest as it led him out of the lobby.
They went into another part of the building, and like lobby, it was also packed. Draco also noticed that there more strange creatures here, and the Muggles seemed to enjoy their presence. Deciding to ignore the scene, he sat down at one of the tables. But he promptly jumped up when he realized he had sat down on something soft and squishy.
A blue ball with a tail and a spiral on its body sat up and shook itself. "Poliwag! Poli!"
"There you are, Poliwag!" A boy came to Draco's table, and the blue ball jumped into the boy's arms.
"Sorry Mister, but my Poliwag just wanders off sometimes! I'll try to keep a closer eye on him. Is that okay with you?"
Draco nodded, and the boy went away. After making sure that there was nothing else on the bench, he sat down and flipped through the menu, wondering how much longer he was going to be in this place.
And as it turned out, quite a long time.
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Draco couldn't sleep. He twisted and turned, but no matter what he just couldn't fall asleep. Finally he decided that a little night air would do him some good.
Wandering around Veilstone City, he noticed that there didn't seem to be that many people out. Once or twice he thought that he had seen a flash of light blue hair, but it turned out to be nothing. After a while, he thought that he should get back to his room. He turned around a began walking back to the Pokemon Center-
"Breloom, use Spore!"
Draco whipped around, going for his wand, but a burst of some kind of green powder hit him the face and he became drowsy. He struggled to stay awake, but it was no use. He was asleep before he hit the ground.
Two Galactic Grunts stepped out of the shadows. One of them returned his Breloom to its Poke Ball, the other heaved Draco over his shoulder. They headed to a large building on the far side of Veilstone City, and the Grunt carrying Draco swiped a key card on a key pad next to the door.
The door instantly opened, and the Grunts went into an elevator in the back of the lobby. It automatically headed down to the bottommost floor, and it opened after a few minutes that seemed like hours. The corridor was dark, lit only by a soft yet foreboding green light.
The Grunts went down the corridor until they came upon an unmarked door. One of the Grunts opened the door, showing a room that was very, very large. Scientists and Grunts alike worked at strange machines, typing things in, turning some knobs or pushing buttons. But the most significant feature of the room was the large cylindrical tank at the back of the room.
The Grunt carrying Draco went over to the tank and opened it. He put Draco in, and attached wires to his body. When he was done, he turned to a man with dark blue hair, who was the closest to the tank.
"Does he look suitable enough, Commander Saturn?"
"He better be. The last two subjects died before the experiment was halfway through. Cyrus is getting impatient."
Just then, Draco started to wake up. He put a hand to his head, and then he noticed that he was in a tank. He banged the glass walls. "Hey! What are you doing?!"
But they couldn't hear him; the glass was soundproof. Commander Saturn barked to one of the scientists, "Begin DNA fusion sequence now!"
Suddenly pain, not unlike that of the Cruciatus Curse, shot through Draco, and it wasn't long before everything went black.